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Youth, the Kenyan State and a politics of contestation

“A new animal”: student activism and the Kenyan state in an era of multiparty politics, 1991–2000

Pages 780-801 | Received 06 Jul 2019, Accepted 30 Sep 2020, Published online: 27 Oct 2020

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